For those of you that are new around here, the MDP list is a compilation of ADP's from various sites. It can be used as a tool to approximate where players will be drafted. In the end, ADP's from Yahoo, ESPN, CBS, Mock Draft Central, Couch Managers, Fantasy Gameday, and NFBC will be accounted for in the report. Again this year, I will be incorporating mocks and drafts from the cafe as well. Special thanks to Mock Draft Central and Couchmanagers for providing me with their data again this year. Note: I decided to use the median rather than mean (average) statistic, because it is less affected by extreme outliers. As many of you have probably noticed, ADP's tend to be very different between sites because they are highly dependent on their own ranking systems.

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Justin Upton at 40 is really tempting. His 2010 season is really confusing, as his BB rate went up which is promising but his ISO plummeted. BA dropped 27 points but his BABIP (.360 to .354)barely moved and neither did his LD%. If he's there in the 4th round a no doubter for me.

Favorite picks at the end of the list: Jordan Zimmermann and Desmond Jennings

...Boston papers now and then suffer a sharp flurry of arithmetic on this score; indeed, for Williams to have distributed all his hits so they did nobody else any good would constitute a feat of placement unparalleled in the annals of selfishness. -Updike

RAmst23 wrote:Greatly appreciated and great work as always! Thoughts so far:Pitchers after pick 60 look really good, lots of high Ks with Kershaw, Gallardo, Weaver, and Liriano. Poor Johan has dropped to pick 127

Johan had surgery at the end of the season and will not be ready for Opening Day.

Definitely wasn't aware of this yet as I haven't started my projections, much appreciated.

...Boston papers now and then suffer a sharp flurry of arithmetic on this score; indeed, for Williams to have distributed all his hits so they did nobody else any good would constitute a feat of placement unparalleled in the annals of selfishness. -Updike